Re: [PATCH] Support DOS paths in dash

2014-10-03 Thread Herbert Xu
Edward Lam edw...@sidefx.com wrote: On Oct 1, 2014, at 8:41 PM, Herbert Xu herb...@gondor.apana.org.au wrote: Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: I'm not interested in burdening the cygwin build of dash with a one-off patch, so I'd like to gauge the upstream thoughts - is it worth

Re: [PATCH] Support DOS paths in dash

2014-10-01 Thread Herbert Xu
Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: I'm not interested in burdening the cygwin build of dash with a one-off patch, so I'd like to gauge the upstream thoughts - is it worth including platform-specific patches like this (no penalty to build size of non-cygwin platforms, and on cygwin, it allows

Re: [PATCH] Support DOS paths in dash

2014-10-01 Thread Edward Lam
On Oct 1, 2014, at 8:41 PM, Herbert Xu herb...@gondor.apana.org.au wrote: Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: I'm not interested in burdening the cygwin build of dash with a one-off patch, so I'd like to gauge the upstream thoughts - is it worth including platform-specific patches like

Re: [PATCH] Support DOS paths in dash

2014-09-30 Thread Eric Blake
[I noticed an old thread in my inbox while packaging dash 0.5.8 for Cygwin] On 03/28/2013 09:08 AM, Edward Lam wrote [to the cygwin list]: The problem is that dash tries to convert c:/windows to an absolute path, since it doesn't start with /. I suppose I could teach dash to recognize